“WWE SmackDown” viewership has seen one more uptick in each viewership and rankings, with the last show of July registering a jump in each metrics.
The July 24 edition of “SmackDown” from Oakland, California, drew a median of 1,253,000 viewers, barely up from the previous week’s 1,243,000, as per “Programming Insider.” The show has seen regular viewership growth throughout July, with the primary episode drawing just over one million viewers before progressively increasing to last week’s monthly high. Despite the expansion, the typical viewership of July 2026 is 15% lower than July 2025, reports “Wrestlenomics.”
The show, which was the penultimate edition of “SmackDown” before SummerSlam, also saw a rise in the important thing 18–49 demographic rating, rising from the previous week’s 0.21 to 0.23, matching the four-week average. Nonetheless, like its viewership, the show’s rankings for this month are down significantly from last July, by a whopping 40%, with the typical rating for July 2025 standing at 0.40 in comparison with this month’s 0.23.
Last week’s “SmackDown” began with the contract signing between GUNTHER and Nick Aldis, followed by a singles match between Lainey Reid and Brie Bella, which the latter won, and she or he was then reunited together with her sister Nikki Bella, who returned from injury. CM Punk and Cody Rhodes had one more face-to-face on the show, while Charlotte Flair and Chelsea Green won their respective qualifying matches to enter the five-way match for the Interim Women’s Championship at SummerSlam.